Gmail: post ideas from your email

With the Gmail connection, Sayweek looks at last week's email once a week (conferences, finished projects, travel) and suggests post ideas from it. The same connection also provides Google Calendar – you can switch each one on or off per mailbox.

Before you start

• You need the owner or editor role.
• Each mailbox belongs to a brand – if you have several brands, pick the one the email relates to.
• If the hint under How should I connect it? says Sayweek's Google app only reads the calendar, email ideas need your own Google Workspace connection: the owner adds it on the Google Workspaces tab (Connect own Workspace is one click; for another company use + Add another company's Workspace (step by step)).

Connect

1. 1Open Settings → Mail and calendar.
2. 2On the Mailboxes tab, click + Mailbox next to the brand.
3. 3Under How should I connect it?, choose Simply, with a Google account (recommended) or your own Workspace.
4. 4Optionally enter the account in Email address (optional) – Google will suggest it right away.
5. 5Click Continue to Google and leave both boxes ticked there (read mail and calendar).
6. 6Back in Sayweek, switch on Mail in the mailbox row.

What Sayweek reads

• Read-only: it never sends, moves or deletes email. If Google grants wider access than that, the connection isn't saved.
• It looks at the past week's email, skipping chats, spam, trash and the Promotions, Social, Forums and Updates categories.
• Labels, senders, domains and subject words listed on the Exclusions tab are never fetched. Email about contracts, pricing, offers, health and legal matters is always filtered out.
• Only the subject, the date and a redacted snippet go to the AI, without names or email addresses; email text isn't stored.

It runs on Mondays; the first check runs within an hour of connecting. You'll find the ideas under Ideas → From mail & calendar. If something fails, press Recheck: it tells you the exact reason.

Disconnect

1. 1Open Settings → Mail and calendar → Mailboxes.
2. 2To stop only the email ideas, switch off Mail; to remove the mailbox completely, click Disconnect and confirm.